JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisites

Petroleum Geology, Reservoir Engineering

Course Objective

To make familiar students with reservoir fluid and rock properties such as Porosity,

Permeability, Saturation, Wettability, Viscosity, Contact Angle, Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension

Course Outcome

The students should be in a position to

• predict the type of rock
• find out the amount of hydrocarbon in the reservoir
• determine the amount of recoverable hydrocarbon

List of Experiments

• 1. Determination of effective porosity by gas expansion method. Equipment: Helium Porosimeter (Nitrogen gas can be used in place of helium).
• 2. Determination of porosity and pore size distribution by mercury injection. Equipment: Mercury Porosimeter
• 3. Measurement of surface tension & interfacial tension with the ring tensiometer. Equipment: Ring Tensiometer
• 4. Determination of fluid density using Pycnometer and Hydrometer methods. Equipment: Pycnometer and Hydrometer
• 5. Liquid viscosity measurement using capillary tube viscometer (Ostwald type). Equipment: Capillary Tube Viscometer.
• 6. Determination of capillary pressure of reservoir rock (core) using porous plate method. Equipment: Capillary Pressure Cell
• 7. Measurement of contact angle (between oil, water and solid surface) using imaging method. Equipment: Image System Set-up
• 8. Measurement of Air Permeability. Equipment: Constant Head Permeameter with the Hassler cell / Gas Permeameter
• 9. Absolute permeability measurement of water. Equipment: Darcy Apparatus / Liquid Permeameter
• 10. Determination of relative permeability of oil-water using unsteady state method. Equipment: Relative Permeability Apparatus
• 11. Determination of relative permeability of gas-oil using unsteady state method. Equipment: Relative Permeability Apparatus R18 B.TECH PETROLEUM ENGG. III YEAR